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TESTIMONIALS 



FROM A NATIONALLY KNOWN COMMISSIONER OF LABOR. 

Detroit, Mich., Dec. 14, 1914. 
Dear Sir: — "Hot Shots" is replete with sane and fundamental suggestions on 
many of the Social and Economic evils of the day. The wide circulation of 
your articles on the Relation Between Capital and Labor, must eventually 
result in a better and clearer understanding between employer and employee. 
I heartily approve of your efforts along the lines indicated in My Platform. 

(Signed) MALCOLM J. McLEOD, 
Six Years Commissioner of Labor in Michigan. 

FROM THE GOVERNOR OF MICHIGAN. 

Big Rapids, Mich., Dec. 14, 1914. 
My Dear Mr. Hogan: — I have your letter of the 10th, together with a booklet 
and several leaflets. I am sure you must be disappointed in the result of your 
conference with me, but my friend, I have been working night and day, Sun- 
days included, and I find it impossible to keep even pace with my work. 
Our conference at Lansing was inspiring, and I can assure you that I am 
interested in the work you are doing. I write this letter in order that you 
may know that I am not unmindful of your efforts. 

(Signed) WOODBRIDGE N. FERRIS, 

Governor. 
Pres. National Gas, Electric Light & Power Co. 



FROM THE HEAD OF A FAMOUS FRATERNAL ORDER. 

Port Huron, Mich., Dec. 15, 1914. 
Bear Mr. Hogan: — Hot Shots is an unusually attractive and interesting book- 
let You are working along lines of great moral uplift and your reviews on 
various subjects surely tend to produce a better understanding of real condi- 
tions in Society. 

I heartily subscribe to My Platform, and wish you all kinds of success. 

(Signed) GEO. S. LOVELACE, 

Great Commander of the Maccabees. 

FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE LARGEST STOVE WORKS IN 

THE WORLD. 

Detroit, Mich., Dec. 11, 1914. 
Dear Sir: — In reply to your inquiry of the 10th inst., will state that I have 
read, with considerable interest, the pamphlet enclosed and believe without 
doubt, that you are conducting a splendid movement that is bound to be 
auctive of excellent results. The character of the articles appearing in 11 
Shots" is excellent, and the articles are well calculated to command carekil 
reading and produce a splendid effect. ...... ^, .,,r^« 

8 * (Signed) JEREMIAH DWYER, 

Pres. Michigan Stove Works. 

And many others of similar import. 



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Hot Shots 



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Danger. 



The Yellow Press. 

Our Political Quacks. 

The Socialist. 

The Cancer on Labor's Breast. 

Public Opinion. 

Trusts and Combinations. 

The Living Wage. 

Strikes and Lockouts. 

Old Buccaneering Captain of 
Industry. 

The New Captain of Industry. 



Copyright 1914 

by 

JOHN F. HOGAN, Publisher 

The Gateway Magazine 

Detroit, Mich.,U. 5. A. 



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DANGER ! 



From the Indifference to God. 

From the Discontent of the Poor. 

From the Extravagances of the Rich. 

From the Disregard for Authority. 

From the Tendency towards Pure Democ- 
racy. 

From the Dissatisfaction with Representa- 
tive Democracy. 

From the Suspicion of our Courts. 

From the Red Flag of Socialism and An- 
archy. 



STOP! LOOK! LISTEN! 



ACT! 




ROUSE, ye Defenders of our Repub- 
lic! 

Open your eyes to the approaching 

danger! 

Cast your eyes backwards a hundred years 
to France. 

Note the causes that led up to the bloody 
French Revolution, 
Analyze them. 

Observe the indifference to religion, the lack 
of reverence for God and His Teaching; the 
insane desires for the things of this world. 
Go deeply into the habits, the pleasures, the 
pastimes of the people; study them in their 
homes; in their lives, open and private; 
mark the breaking up of family ties. 
Do all this. 

Then, look at present conditions in the 
United States. 
What do you see? 



<J The interests of capital and labor are mu- 
tual — each needs the other. 



q More than 50 000,000 of our people are 
non-church goers; yet, it is conceded that 
the principles of morality are based on Re- 
ligion. 

What will our children become? 
What causes this unrest of ours? 
Why the high cost of living! 
Why the great prevalence of divorce? 
Why the flaunting of extravagances? 
Why the lack of Religious belief? 
Why the disregard of authority; the disre- 
spect and suspicion of our courts? 
What is driving us toward a government of 
Pure Democracy? 



CJ Will you submit tamely to the over- 
throw by the mob of our government of 
Representative Democracy? A government 
devised and instituted by noble, patriotic 
founders of this grand Republic. 



flj I love this country of ours. Do you? 

Then fight this mob of Socialists, Industrial 

Workers of the World, Anarchists, Political 

Quacks, and Agitators, the Ignorant and 

Unthinking. 

Fight them — but not with the gun. 

Fight them by educating and arousing our 

patriotic people to the dangers that slowly 

but surely are entering on their work of 

destruction. 



C[ The Man of Wealth cannot see these 

changes — he is too much engrossed in the 

ledger. 

<| He goes to his office in an automobile, 

secludes himself from all but his associates. 



q Politician, not statesmen, rule the coun- 
try. 



lunches at the club with his intimates, then 
drives home in his "Packard." 

CJ During the evening he is mingling with 
those of his social position. All this time, 
high-salaried secretaries protect him from 
the "rabble." 

Hig vision is clouded by his own environ- 
ments. 

He is to be pitied. 

He does not know what goes on underneath 
the surface. 

The back streets of his city are unknown 
to him. 

Hfc is blind to the great changes coming 
over the people. 

€J All too late, he faces — what? 




e[ "The people shall rule," says the political 
quack. Of course. 



The Yellow Press is the 

Great American 

Leprosy. 




EPROSY, Leprosy ! 

q We pity, yet we curse I You, 
reader, shall be the judge; and we 
ask in God's name why you permit 
yourself to be taken in, year after year? 
Leprosy, leprosy, the great American lepers, 
the yellow journalists! 

Unlike the lepers of eld, the modern yellow 
journalist is not found in the out of the way 
places of this world, shunned, despised; but 
he lives in a gilded palace, rich beyond the 
dreams of avarice. 

Stranger still, he loathes the very ground on 
which the poor walk, yet with the black lie 
in his heart, praises the poor to the skies 
but is careful that they never meet his 
wife, son or daughter ! 

q The great American leprosy, yellow jour- 
nalism ! 



q This American leper usually starts life 
cringing around the gate, with his hand out 

and his tin cup; begging and sucking 
around passers-by for alms; his leprosy is 
cunningly concealed and his voice is one sad 
whine at the sorrows of the poor ! 

q As he gathers up his copper coins by the 
bag, little by little he deserts the people 



q The I. W. W. say the employing and the 
working classes have nothing in common. 
The I. W. W. lies. 



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that created his riches, moves from humble 
lodgings on the east side, to a mansion near 
or on Fifth avenue; but his bleat about the 
common down-trodden poor is now second 
nature, and over and over again he tells the 
story of the enemies he has made ! 
q And his touch is death ! 



q You must not tell the people the truth; 
it hurts their pride, their egotism^ their 
conceit ! However enormous that self- 
puffery inflate it, in your columns, and 
then — 

q The Almighty Dollar ! 
q Is that the god of the yellow press? 
q Exactly. 



q Recently, the nastiest New York paper 
backed down completely on its time-honored 
policy of making gods out of union men. 
Why? Because seven of the largest de- 
partment stores went to the business man- 
ager of that paper, and laid down the law 
that, in the car strike if the paper didn't 
quit quacking about the wrongs of the car- 
men, the department store advertising 
would be withdrawn. And the paper quit ! 
q Not only quit, but some time later, when 
one of the department stores peremptorily 
discharged employes right and left, for at- 
tempting to form a union, this great friend 
of the working man had not a word to say 
— stood mute ! 

q This cringing paper even expressed the 
utmost deference for the managers of the 
big store and withdrew all attacks on 
wealth, forgot to quack, quack, quack for 



q On which side do you stand — Society or 
Socialism? 



the workJngman, because for the time be- 
ing quack, quack, quack did not p-a-y ! 



{§ In other words, quack journalism is a 
"graft"? 

€J Pure and simple, and at heart the great 
yellow lepers loathe the common people 
they profess to admire ! Their lives are 
spent in gilded castles, their golden moun- 
tains rise higher and higher, and their 
hypocrisy stinks to the skies. 
<J Yet, they direct our national destinies, 
you will at least admit that? 

<J For value received, yes indeed ! 
t| By means of a defiant note of malice, 
cheap cynical tones, condemning unheard 
those with whom they do not agree — that 
is the way the/ quack paper rules the mob. 

CJ Flatter the mob, never tell the mob the 
truth. Hold the mob in contempt, but 
praise it to the skies — such is the morality 
behind the issue. 



€$ Give us signs by which we may know 
the monster. 

*J Editorials that yell; that urge young men 
to save as much as they can as the sign of 
worldly success; anti-British passion run 
mad; anti-Irish passion run wild; hatred of 
orderly administration of justice; tips on 
the races; glorification of crime and crim- 
inals; support of divorce, incest, lust, big- 
amy, if the people would stand for it; rape 
of your wife, if the people would stand for 
it; seduction of your daughter if the peo- 



ffl Before VICE can be eliminated, NA- 
TURE must change its machinery. 



pie would stand for it; anything in short 
that the people are willing to count noses 
in favor of; without God, country or flag, 
as truly as the I. W. W. such is the yellow 
leper journalist ! 



^ The long suit of the leper journalist is 
thus: "What will the people stand for," not, 
"What is right?" 

"Does it pay" takes the place of "Should 
it pay?" 

One shriek over the downtrodden poor 
"pays" better than a little common sense. 
Class prejudice, religious prejudice, hound- 
ing of Jews, mockery of Christ — Blasphemy 
of God Almighty would find its place in the 
yellow leper journalist's paper, if he felt 
that "there is a dollar in it!" 
C| Is all this leper journalism an art? 
€| No, a trade, like that, of the safe-blower 
or bank burglar. 

^ Is it true that in his 'Frisco days. Hearst 
used to print whore house stories, as his 
finest judgment of "what is worth while?" 
CJ The best answer is to go to Washington 
and bring out the files of the 'Frisco "Ex- 
aminer." 

d| But times have changed have they not? 
€J Very, very much changed; you see, when 
a man's 50, he no longer considers import- 
ant what he liked when he was 21. Such is 
human nature ! 



q Have you any ideals left? You seem 
to have none ! 

€f I am still old-fashioned enough to think 
that common honesty pays ! 



€J The producer of immoral plays will con 
tinue to present them as long as it pays. 



€$ Yes, in the new journalism it will be 
shown to pay. 

q What, then, would you aim to bring 
about? 

q "The Gateway" says to all: Men of 
America, stand on your own feet; do not 
take your principles ready-made from your 
quack teachers; disbelieve a newspaper 
when it tries to construct through newspa- 
per-made laws, great ballots manufactured 
in its own columns; crusades; fakes; ma- 
chine-made politics; think twice of its cri- 
ticisms; for you are neither hero nor fool; 
you Americans have good instincts, aim to 
be informed, are willing to be taught; but 
do not be led and mislead by the fawner, 
the cringer, the flatterer, who tells you that 
you are little under the stature of demigods. 

Q Would the public support such a news- 
paper? 

CJ Would a hungry dog eat a beef-steak? 



€[ The education of a child begins at the 
beginning of life. 



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Our Political Quacks. 



HOOT the bunk into them." 
"Fill 'em up with hot air." 
"They'll stand for it !" 

With a sneer and a wave of his 
hand the politician calmly dismissed the 
"spellbinders" from further instruction. 
«3 The "spellbinders" thereupon proceeded 
to "shoot the bunk" and the gullible public 
just as promptly proceeded to "eat it up." 
I| And so the great political game of "edu- 
cating" the people went merrily on. 



^ When are you going to call a halt on 
these political "quacks," and demagogues, 
Mr. Easy Man? 

When are you going to wake up and be a 
man, not a "dub?" 

€| You neglected your duty at the polls by 
staying away or else by permitting your 
passion or your prejudice to overrule your 
calm judgment — if you ever had any. 
You respect the man who enslaves you 
rather than the man who sacrifices every- 
thing for you. 

You admire politicians who "put it over" on 
you.. 

By your indifference you relaxed your vigi- 
lance, permitting liberty to be imperiled and 
license to take its place. You rouse your- 
self in a moment of indignation — then for- 



€J Where are our old fashioned mothers? 

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get all about it. You are carried away by 
the slogan, "The People Must Rule"— and 
madly denounce the man who stands up for 
his constitutional rights. 



*j The political problem today is to sweep 
this "quack" from the face of the earth. 
That is your duty, Mr. Easy Man. Will 
you do it? 



<fl The idea of liberty, equality and fra- 
ternity has too long been given a warped 
conclusion. John A. Sleicher of Leslie's 
Weekly, one of the boldest and intelligent 
of our national editors, a man with a con- 
structive policy, uses for a subline for his 
paper the striking bulletin: "Let the In- 
telligent people rule." 

€J The Gateway Magazine long ago coined 
the slogan, "For the intelligent." And this 
magazine has never for one moment during 
all its hard, upward fight for true Ameri- 
canism and fair-play, seen fit to haul down 
its flag, or modify its principles. 



<| The great social fact of 'the l hour is that 
all Americans are not fit to rule; in fact "let 
the people rule" is a piece of political 
quackery exploited by Roosevelt, to his 
everlasting shame. 



How to live right is a problem today. 



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CJ Certainly the people should rule. "All" 
the people "all" the time. Let us see what 
this means. 

Blacklegs, paupers, criminals, Indians, in- 
sane cases, paralytics, thieves, whore mas- 
ters, seducers, lepers — 

Let the people rule, says Roosevelt. Poli- 
tical quacks, yellow editors, bums, hobos, 
red socialists and members of the I. W. W. 
All are "fit" to "rule" these United States. 
Has not the great Roosevelt said it? And 
is it possible for him to make an error in 
judgment? 




fj Individual initiative is the basis of all 
political and industrial progress. 



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The Socialist. 

WHAT does the Socialist stand for? 
Here is his doxology. Read it, study 
it, take it to bed with you — then ask 
yourself, do I want his ideas to rule? 

A Socialist Doxology. 

I am a Socialist; 

A red card Socialist. 
I believe in free land, 
And free lodging, 
And free love, 
And free liquor, 

And free support from the state, 
And all the free speech I need to abuse 
other parties with. 

I hate the laws; 
They are unjust; 

I am down on the government. 
It is tyrannical; 

I howl against the courts — 
They are rotten; 

I condemn the banks, 
They rob us; 

I am against the flag; 

It is an emblem of tyranny and oppres- 
sion; 

I love the Appeal to Reason and all the lit- 
tle Socialist papers, 
They are my earnest advocates. 



q This is the day of the wild-eyed, half- 
baked reformer who "knows it all." 



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I hate the courts with a terrible hate, 

They give my friends hell for using 
dynamite; . 

I despise the Christian Socialist, 

For letting the Barnes cat out of the bag; 

I despise wealth, 

If the other fellow has got it; 

I love Bebel for telling us what women are 
for, 
And I doubly love all the Socialist papers 
that silently endorse what he says. 

I hate all business men, 
They are thieves; 

I denounce the church, 
It is unholy; 

I despise God Almighty, 

For not giving us Socialism in the begin- 
ning of the world. 

In short, I am against everything that is or 
ever has been. 
It is all wrong, and to get right we must 
start at the bottom and create all 
over again. That's what we're going 
to do, see if we don't. Hurrah! for 
Socialism. Don't you see it's got to 
Come? 




ffl If Vice can be eliminated, why was it not 
done centuries ago? 



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Pity the Socialist. 




OCIALISTS should be kept out of 
office, because: 

€J The doctrine of Socialism is 
based on a fallacy. 

€J Socialism means the overturning of so- 
ciety. 

€][ Socialism is impracticable and impossible 
as a form of government. 

*J Socialism promises everything and can 
give nothing. 

q The Socialists are professional agitators. 

CJ Socialism has done much to disturb the 
workingman in his work. 

t| The Socialists make workingmen dissat- 
isfied without possible benefit. 

C| Socialists have come between the em- 
ployer and employe to the harm of both. 

CJ Socialists are destructive, not construc- 
tive. 

CJ Socialist leaders are purely self-seekers. 

q Socialist leaders have been constant in 
their efforts to get and hold office, and it is 
the same few from year to year. 

q Political office-seeking is the business of 
the Socialists. 



q If you want brain food, read The Gate- 
way from cover to cover. 



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Q Class hatred and antagonism is a shib- 
boleth of Socialism. 

C| Socialists try to make people believe that 
the employer is an oppressor and enemy of 
fabor. 

1} Socialism makes hypocrites, dishonest 
men, because it promises "something for 
nothing." 

^Socialists have no conception of how to 
handle city or county funds. 

^j The case against the Socialists has been 
proven very strongly. 

€J We want our institutions well managed, 
and Socialist leaders are not capable of do- 
ing it. 

qWe want adequate protection against the 
criminal of various kinds. 

€J We want competent officials, as well as 
honest ones. 

€J City government should be for all the 
people, and not for a clique. 

€| Public money should be used judiciously 
for public purposes, and Socialists are not 
qualified to do it. 

Cf Political henchmen without other qualifi- 
cations than ability to gather votes are un- 
desirable in public offices. 

Cjj Socialism differentiates human beings 
into the masses and the classes. 

C]| Socialists are fanatical and bigoted. 



q The Tango is the invention of the Argen- 
tine bawdy houses. 



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CJ The welfare of yourself and your family 
is in jeopardy from Socialists in office. 

CJYour taxes should go where you intend 
them to be spent. 

€J The money squandered by the Socialists 
in the past has been the taxes of the people; 
why let them dissipate any more of it? 

CJ Every Socialist in office means not only 
incompetence, but that this office cannot be 
of the real benefits to the people it should 
be. 

CJ Socialists have no civic pride; with them 
it is Socialism versus everything else. 

€fl Socialism is a dangerous preachment, op- 
posed to the welfare of the city and county. 

CJ Socialists misrepresent by saying that 
they study the wants of others; they only 
look after their own selfish interests. The 
rest is a delusion. 



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Cfl The rich man is steward of his wealth. 



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The Cancer on Labor's 
Breast. 

€J Let us see what the I. W. W. represents. 

In A GENERAL WAY: 

Syndicalism, which is a species of an- 
archy. 

War on trades unionism. 

The general strike. 

MORE SPECIFICALLY: 

Destruction of business. 

Destruction of prosperity. 

Destruction of all established Government. 

1$ Denial of any common interest or pos- 
sible good understanding between employ- 
ers and employes. 
Desecration of the American flag. 
Dynamiting. 
Sabotage. 
Arson. 

Murder. 

* * * 

€J The trades unionists show a more inti- 
mate knowledge of the situation when they 
characterize the I. W. W. as the "I Won't 
Work Movement." 



q Whither Goest Thou, Heaven or Hell 

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q The I. W. W. in Chicago circulates a 
text-book on Sabotage, giving a scientific 
method of hurling trains from the tracks by 
centrifugal force, thereby causing wrecks 
and loss of life. 
Isn't that murder? 

q This text-book circulated by the I. W. W. 
also gives various chemical formulas for 
starting fires, and hints are also thrown out 
about "unostentatiously" removing hated 
foremen and drivers to a "better world." 
Wouldn't you call that arson and murder? 




q Disregard of the Golden Rule is the cause 
of present wrongs. 



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Public Opinion. 



€J Public opinion years ago was not so well 
understood nor so thoroughly crystalized 
as it is today. 



Cj[ Publicity is not an unmixed good, but it 
is also not an unmixed evil. It is a two- 
edged sword; it cuts both ways. A good 
deal depends on the man who is handling 
the weapon. 



€J If you haven't something pleasant to say 
to the public, it's a pretty good rule not to 
say anything. The old idea of "making the 
public like it" was brutal and uncharitable 
to begin with. 

But, what is more to the point, it was un- 
businesslike. It was founded on the mis- 
taken idea that good will wasn't worth any- 
thing in dollars and cents. 



<J Some editors, no doubt, abuse their 
power, and so do some public service cor- 
porations. 



CJ Sometimes silence is the best sort of pub- 
licity. That sounds like an Irish bull, but 
it's true just the same. If you just refrain 
from making the hot retort you meant to 



C[ Peace without justice is impossible. 

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make, when your feelings were roused, it's 
astonishing how glad you'll feel, sometimes 
a week later. 



Cfl The silent man nearly always has the 
best of an argument anyway. 



Cfl The letter that wasn't written is often 
the letter that got the business. 



Cfl The favor that wasn't asked is often the 
favor that's gladly given. 



Cfl People cool off in the face of a strong but 
good natured silence. 



CJ The man who is continuously laboring 
to get an editor to print something the lat- 
ter doesn't want to print and which the 
public doesn't want to hear, is wasting his 
time. 



Cfl Some men are so constituted that they 
always approach a business deal by an 
underground tunnel. 



Cfl If they wish to accomplish a simple bus- 
iness transaction, which might be completed 
by walking half a block, they prefer, instead, 
to travel several roundabout miles before 



Cfl The right of a man to provide for his 
family is a natural right. 



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coming to the point. That was considered 
"astute" 20 years ago, and in some in- 
stances is attempted at the present time. 



€J If your story is worth telling, it's some- 
thing the public will be glad to hear and 
the editor will be glad to get it. And it's a 
perfectly simple matter to get it printed. 



q You can lead public opinion, if you're 
frank and fair; or you can even lead it if 
you sugar-coat some of the hard, unpleasant 
facts of modern business life, by calling at- 
tention to some facts which aren't pleasant. 
But you can't bulldoze it, to save your life. 



€$ Public opinion has had a new birth in 
the past 10 years. It has come to a realiza- 
tion of its power. 



<J The man on the street knows the value 
of his good will. He doesn't always use it 
intelligently — none of us do. He is misled 
some times by the artful and the designing 
— so are nearly all of us. But way down 
deep he wants to be fair — as all of us want 
to be fair. 



€J So the man in the street — who makes up 
public opinion — is not an influence to be 
approached in gum shoes, a butterfly net, 
and with a club in the left hand held behind 
his back. 



€J Does labor produce all wealth? Where 
does capital come in? 



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CJ He's just a plain, simple man like an 
editor or a public utility manager, to be 
talked to — if it becomes necessary to talk 
to him at all — plainly and reasonably. 



<§ Flatter him, if you like — we all enjoy 
having our opinions asked. 



Cj Distract his attention, if you like, from 
the unpleasant thing you're trying to cor- 
rect, to the pleasant thing — that's legiti- 
mate. 



<$ But don't indulge in the folly of even 
seeming to fight him — and that's precisely 
what you are trying to do when you try to 
fight a newspaper. 



€| If public opinion becomes unjust, go your 
way, keep quiet and bide your time. It will 
right itself after a while. 
Sometimes it takes quite a while; and you 
feel tempted to fight back. But that's fight- 
ing folly with folly. Given time, a com- 
munity will come to its senses. 
It will recognize even its own unfairness. 
It will even turn on the newspaper which 
taught it to be unfair. 



HI ■— — D 



€J The Socialists polled mere than 1,000,000 
votes in 1912. 



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Trusts and 

Combinations. 

ITHIN the past few years, the In- 
dustrial Trust was denounced by 
the people, condemned by courts, 
tried, convicted and sentenced by 
state legislatures and congress — yet within 
this time more trusts were organized and 
with larger capital than in all previous 
years ! 

CJ This situation has no parallel in history. 
The activity and violence in the denuncia- 
tion of trusts was only equalled by the ac- 
tivity and calmness of their formation, and 
the extent and volume of this denunciation 
was only equalled by the extent and volume 
of capital organized. 



€$ The fact that trusts multiplied in spite of 
official opposition and attacks, suggests the 
question whether there is not some vital 
principle of right at their foundation (for 
hardly anything exists without a reason) or 
some merit in their character, not recog- 
nized, or clearly understood which, when 
known and understood will move the peo- 
ple to petition for a speedy suspension of 
the death sentence as was demanded for its 

infliction? 

* * * 

C|J When a man needs food, clothing and 
shelter words will not satisfy him. It is 



«| Love is the greatest force in the world to- 
day. 



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things, not words, that count. Monopoly, 
combines and trusts are haughty words, but 
the best goods at lower prices are beneficial 

things. 



€j While many regajrd capital as an Indus- 
trial enemy, related to the octopus, made 
up of eight or more greedy blood-suckers, 
that live and grow fat and powerful on its 
helpless victims, giving them barely enough 
in return to keep them in condition for pro- 
ducing more blood, still others look upon the 
trust as an industrial friend that gives us 
more comforts for less effort, more enjoy- 
ments in the ascending steps of the stair- 
way leading from bare necessities to the 
highest luxuries, than ever before re- 
ceived. 



qif productive energy is increased by 
large combinations of capital and some 
energy thereby saved, may we not confi- 
dently declare that the readjustment of 
industrial forces (which is all the while 
going on) will continue to be, as in the 
past, on the line of the least resistance to 
human vitality? 



q This is no time to dodge facts or to de- 
ceive ourselves about the relation these ag- 
gregations of capital bear to industrial 
progress. In obedience to the constant and 
ever increasing demand of human wants, 
man has called to his aid the powerful and 
tireless forces of nature. 
He no longer supplies his wants from the 



ffl More than 55,000,000 people are non 
church members. Why? 



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elements of the earth with his hands. He 
has invented machinery and its application 
to production and distribution has been 
made. 



€J When it is agreed that the trust is a 
natural development of economic power in 
the industrial movement of this age, then 
surely, efforts should be directed, not to its 
prohibition and overthrow, but to such form 
of regulation as will prevent and correct 
evils resulting from abuse of power. 

If there is economic power in trusts, then 
society needs it, as it does steam and elec- 
tricity, and should make use of it for good. 
What would be thought of a city that put 
none but its weak men on the police force 
because some strong men had made bad 
use of their strength? What would you 
think of a statute that required the em- 
ployer of strong, skilled men to so fetter 
their arms that his factory should not be 
more efficient than the factory of his weak- 
est competitor? 

It is not power or the use of it, that is to be 
feared, but the abuse of power. 

€J Man felt the need of animal power to 
help him till the earth and haul its products, 
so he harnessed horses and yoked oxen. 
There was some danger in it, but the strong 
and brave did not lay down because colts 
kicked and steers hooked. He tamed them 
to his service and utilized their power for 
his advantage. 



CJ The greatest American leper — the yellow 
Journalist. 



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<J Is there economic power in large com- 
binations of capital not contained in the 
smaller institutions. In other words, can 
large institutions in a given industry, and 
under like conditions, produce goods and 
furnish service cheaper than small ones? 



C| What then is the question that meets 
the citizen on the farm, in the mine, on the 
railroad, in the factory, in his home and in 
his industrial relations? Manifestly, is it 
not, how can we use the power of organized 
capital for our benefit with the least dan- 
ger cf injury from its misuse? 



CJ The locomotive kills people, the steam 
thresher sets fire to barns and grain, the 
planing mill cuts off fingers, the electric car 
has its deadly trolley wire and hazardous 
momentum, horses kick and run away, the 
trust overthrows competitors, but humanity, 
ever struggling (however blindly) for bet- 
ter conditions, selects its men of greatest 
skill, courage and intelligence, in special- 
ized work, to apply these forces for the best 
results. 



ROFIT is the purpose of trusts. 
They are not organized and oper- 
ated for the recreation of their offi- 
cers, or for the sole benefit of the 
public. In this they do not differ from 
other business institutions and most other 
human actions. 




CJ Re-adjustment of wages must come. 

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<J That competition between employers of 
labor enhances wages is true, but only 
temporarily, perhaps for a month or maybe 
for a year, or until, as bitter experience 
shows, labor flocks to the demand. Then 
follows an over-supply of labor. Men with 
their families become established in their 
homes. Then comes that heartrending con- 
flict for a bare living and glorious promise 
contained in this kind of philosophy turns 
out to be mockery. 




«J One great cause of industrial disputes- 
neglecting the human element. 



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^^JfegJB^ 



4^5^25^ 




Fair Play for 

Corporations. 

OVERNMENTS don't build rail- 
roads, they rightly leave that un- 
dertaking to personal Initiative. 



^ The fundamental purpose of transporta- 
tion agencies is public service. It is not a 
mere money making business to be con- 
ducted solely for the purpose of enriching 
the owners and along lines of personal self- 
ishness. 

It is not a business like a drygoods, gro- 
cery or purely mercantile institution. 
It is a public business to be conducted in 

the interests of general welfare. 
* * * 

l| The sins of Fisk, Gould, Huntington and 
others, were placed on the shoulders of all 
railroad men. No discrimination was exer- 
cised between the good and bad — all were 
accorded the same dose. 
Railroads were made the "goat 5 ' of every 
political demagogue and yellow newspaper 
in the country. The torch of inflammation 
and hatred was everywhere manifest. 



CJ On the other hand, to be perfectly fair, 
managers thought that public utilities built 



<J The founders of our government made it 
a representative democracy. 



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and operated by private capital, in which 
the government paid not one dollar, was a 
personal concern of those who had invested 
these funds. It was not a matter in which 
the public had any right to interfere, they 
declared. That was the generally accepted 
position of all public service corporations 
and — be it said in their favor — no law on 
the statute books until lately, obliged them 
to look at the question in any other way. 
Therefore, they did as they thought right 
and proper for their stockholders and en- 
deavored to operate their business with the 
same end in view for which all corpora- 
tions are organized — Profit. 



€jj When the Supreme Court of the United 
States shattered that belief several years 
ago, every public service manager knew, 
for the first time, that a public service cor- 
poration is organized and operated first of 
all for the purpose of rendering service to 
the public. 



€J If the thought in mind had been to 
punish the arrogance of public service cor- 
porations, has not that result already been 
accomplished? 

If we have in view the safeguarding of fu- 
ture interests of the public, has not the 
passage of many laws and the creation of 
various railroad commissions achieved that 

end? 

* * * 

€][ It takes a man these days to stand up for 
a corporation and demand fair play. Are 
you that man? 



€J No continuous prosperity is based on 
politics. 



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CJ Some men, are, in a sense, the stewards 
of the people; and should keep this thought 
in mind; and strive to make the most of 
this stewardship. 



Cjj They are rendering public service — and 
if the public does not fully understand and 
appreciate the character and quality of that 
service, the fault lies with the public service 
corporation. 



CJ The first and foremost demand of the 
public is for adequate service. 




u*^ 



CJ The Gateway is against Socialism; are 
you? Show us. 



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The Living Wage. 

^/yOW\ the right of man to provide for 
| M his family is a natural one. In the 
^ %r exercise of this right he may sell 
his labor for what he considers just 
compensation, or may refuse his labor for 
what he deems an inadequate return. 
The measure which he must use in deter- 
mining his decision is that imposed by na- 
ture itself. He must support his family, 
and the living wage which he has a right to 
demand is the one which will maintain his 
family in decent and frugal comfort. 
The man who accepts less through necessity 
or fear of harder conditions, is the victim 
of force and injustice. 



CJ The principles governing conduct of em- 
ployers are well known and are generally 
accepted as the only safe ones which may 
be followed. 

They may be sumed up as follows: Capital 
has a right to the just share of the profits, 
but only a just share. Employers should 
treat those who work under them with hu- 
manity and justice; they should be so- 
licitous for the healthful conditions of the 
place where workmen daily toil; they should 
use all reasonable means to promote the 
material and moral well-being of the em- 
ployes. They should be kindly humane and 
just in all their relations with them. 



*J Hell is too good for some employers, also 
some labor leaders. 



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€J On the other hand, workers are just as 
much bound by the Christian law as their 
employers. This fact seems to be lost sight 
of at times, and men give way to their baser 
impulses. 

The spirit of envy generates discontent and 
the attitude of the laborer towards his em- 
ployer becomes un-christian and pagan. 
There is a disposition, too, to regard labor 
as an intolerable burden to be gotten rid of 
as soon as possible, and with as little effort 
as possible. This is contrary to Christian 
teaching. The Wise Man in Ecclesiastes 
who had tasted all the pleasures of life was 
forcedj to confess: "For I have found that 
there is nothing better for a man than to 
rejoice in his work." 

This natural discontent is fomehted and in- 
tensified by the noisy agitators of Socialism, 
the enemies of God and man, who would 
overturn the foundations upon which human 
society is built, and exile God from his 
universe. 



A LIVING wage is not the same as a 
subsistence wage, nor a wage ade- 
quate for the maintenance of pro- 
ductive efficiency, nor a wage that 
corresponds to any of the current scales of 
expenditure. It has some reference to all 
of these standards, but it is identical with 
none of them. If it were the equivalent of 
mere subsistence, it could not become the 
basis of discussion; for even now practically 
every worker gets sufficient remuneration 
to keep him alive. 

€J Briefly defined, a living wage is a wage 
adequate to a livelihood. It is that amount 
of remuneration which will provide the la- 



€J Municipal ownership means closing the 
gates of progress. 



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borer with a livelihood becoming to, worthy 
of, and proper for a human being. 
Hence the ideas of a living wage and a de- 
cent livelihood are fundamentally moral 
rather than physical or economic. 
They regard the laborer as a person, as a 
quasi-sacred being, as one possessed of in- 
trinsic worth, as "an end in himself." The 
laborer is not conceived as a mere means to 
any other individual, or to any social pur- 
pose or interest. He is a person, morally 
obliged and morally privileged to pursue 
self-perfection, to develop his personality, 
to live a reasonable human life. For this 
purpose he must have the means of exer- 
cising and developing all his faculties, 
physical, mental, moral and spiritual. To 
what degree? Well, to some degree; to a 
reasonable degree; to that degree at least 
which is necessary in order that he may live 
as a human being and not as a horse or a 

pig. 

So much at least is embraced in the idea of 

a decent livelihood. 



C] It ought not be necessary to remark that 
the doctrine of man's equal rights to a de- 
cent livelihood does not imply rights to 
equal amounts of the earth's goods or prod- 
ucts. In some respects men are equal; in 
others they are unequal. Justice demands 
that with regard to the former, they should 
be treated equally, but with regard to the 
latter, unequally. Since they are equal as 
persons, they have equal claims to the 
means of safeguarding personality; since 
they are unequal in the degrees of their 
capacities and needs, they have no claim to 



IJ The Gateway's cause is the cause of hu 
manity. Will you enlist? 



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receive equal amount of opportunities and 
satisfactions. 



WHAT today is a living wage in terms 
of money? Obviously it differs in 
different places. Professor Chap- 
lin places it at $900 per year for a 
man and wife and three children in New 
York City. Mr. Streightoff's estimate is $650 
for smaller cities, without any provision for 
saving or insurance. 

Probably the majority of competent stu- 
dents would agree that for the head of a 
family the minimum adequate living wage 
today in the large cities of the North and 
East is $750 a year. In the case of women 
workers the living wage is not less than 
$8.00 a week in any large city. 
* * * 

THE living wage problem is, there- 
fore, sufficiently grave and suffi- 
ciently .difficult. . It .cannot, be 
solved by any quick, easy or simple 
method, or by any one method whatever. 
Its solution- can be brought about only 
through the co-operation of many agencies, 
individual and social. 

^ In the first place, a large proportion of 
the underpaid laborers could materially 
raise their wages by the practice of greater 
industry, efficiency, thrift, sobriety and 
courage in their every day lives. 
On the other hand, probably a majority of 
those employers who now pay less than liv- 
ing wages could increase these rates of re- 
muneration without being driven out of 
business, and without being compelled to re- 
duce their own standards of living notably 



€J Love, in its broad sense, is the connect- 
ing link between capital and labor. 



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or unreasonably. After all, it is upon the 
employer that the moral responsibility of 
paying a living wage primarily falls. 

tfl Those of us who do not believe in So- 
cialism, or in any other single and simple 
solution of the social question, ought to do 
our utmost to promote the movement for a 
universal living wage. 

If all workers who are now compelled to 
accept wages inadequate to a decent liveli- 
hood had their remuneration raised to that 
level, all the remaining particular industrial 
problems would be within measurable dis- 
tance of solution and the menace of Social- 
ism would be relatively negligible. 



It is a fact of human nature, that however 
mean and contemptible a man may be at 
heart, or in his intention, he hesitates to so 
appear in the public regard. 

Discreditable and unworthy conduct which 
some men are prepared to regard as smart 
or shrewd, provided the results only and not 
the methods become public, would never be 
attempted were it known that the whole of 
the transaction might sooner or later be 
exposed to the light of day. 

To prevent the mean man profiting in his 
meanness, that is what should be aimed at 
above all else in any endeavor to terminate 
industrial wrong. 

Publicity even more than penalty is likely 
to effect in this end. 



<| Socialism has its cemeteries all over the 
world. 



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Strikes and Lockouts- 
Why? 

q STRIKES ! Strikes ! ! Strikes ! ! ! 

The Curse of Labor ! 

Lockouts ! Lockouts ! ! Lockouts ! !. ! 

The Cancer of Capital ! 

The two combined spell War and Disaster. 



tj Why should not strikes and lockouts 
cease? 

They are unnecessary, wasteful and harm- 
ful to ail parties concerned. Strikes are al- 
ways destructive to the peace and prosper- 
ity of the community. Disturbance, turmoil 
and bloodshed invariably follow In their 
wake. 

Cj] Strikes belong to the dark ages and have 
no place in these enlightened times. The 
workmen get the worst of it in a long drawn 
out struggle, while the employer who has 
been through one strike never wants an- 
other if it can be avoided. And strikes and 
lockouts can be avoided if we had a law on 
the statue books that offered a fair and 
intelligent method of settling these con- 
troversies. 

* * * 

q The Bulletin of the New York State De- 
partment of Labor is an interesting docu- 
ment, revealing, as it does in startling fig- 
ures a hidden story of unnecessary and 
unjust industrial strife and contentions. 
q During the first six months of 1909, it 

tfl Without love, men cannot dwell in unity. 
Hate means war. 



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states, 93 strikes were in force involving 

30,777 employes. 

During the first six months of 1913, the 

number of strikes increased to 195, while 

the number of strikers reached the grand 

total of 124,573 employes ! 

An increase of more than 100 per cent in 

the number of strikes and 400 per cent in 

the number of employes directly affected ! 

i?nd this in less than 5 years! It is a shame 

and living disgrace to American manhood ! 

* * * 

Cfl Go further, take in the larger field of 
industry in the United States. 
1% An incessant warfare has been waged 
for 30 years past between capital and labor, 
resulting in paralyzing losses in wages, pro- 
fits — and even life itself ! 
Between 1881 and 1900 we had 22,793 
strikes, an average of 1,139 for the year, or 
three strikes for every working day. 
From 1900 to 1905, the number rose to 
13,964, or nine strikes for every working 
day — an increase of 300 per cent during the 
later years. 

These strikes cost the country in wages, 
expenses and loss to trade $396,769,392.00. 
And this does not include the terrible loss 
of life and bloodshed that accompanied 

these wars. 

* * * 

CJWhat is the strike for? What is its 
purpose? 

€J A strike is nothing more nor less than 
WAR. It is a hostile act on part of the 
employes — the strikers — who demand Jus- 
tice, or what they conceive to be justice, 
from their employer. 

It becomes a war of conquest between the 
employer and his men. 

€J Like all wars, the toll is heavy, whether 

*j[ The business man with eyes constantly 
on the ledger resembles the ostrich. 



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ending in victory for one side or in a com- 
promise. 

Destruction of property, loss of life and 
wages, the end of peace and good will that 
previously existed between the employer 
and the worker, are only a few of the many 
direful consequences of these unnecessary 

conflicts. 

* * * 

1$ On whose shoulders falls the greatest 
burden? On the men engaged in these 
wars? No. On Society? No. 
The innocent wives and mothers and chil- 
dren, the dependent, are the sufferers. They 
are deprived of many comforts, are even 
reduced to starvation — all because men 
have lost all sense of love and humanity 
and have become like the tigers of the jun- 
gles, ready and eager to tear open each 
other's throats and suck in the blood of 
their fellow-man. 

€| But are strikes never justified, you ask. 
Yes, I answer, just as wars are sometimes 
justified. 

But strikes and wars are justifiable only 
when all other honorable means have failed 
to secure justice. 

€][ What has the strike proved? Does it 
prove the justice or the injustice of the 
strikers' demands? Not at all. 
The result of the strike simply proved that 
the stronger side won out. Nothing else. 
And every strike, without exception, proved 
the same thing. The side that has the 
longest purse and the greatest resources, 
will almost always be the victor regardless 
of the justice or the injustice of their po- 
sition. 

So that a strike is simply a war between 
two parties in which the strongest side 
proves victor in the end. 

4| Realization of God's humanity is badly 
needed in this country today. 



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€1 Labor disputes in the United Kingdom, 
for the past ten years, resulted in a loss of 
$84,722,000.00 in wages, not including an 
enormous sum spent in strike benefits. 
Opposed to this gigantic total, was a gain 
of $13,209,000.00, leaving a net loss to the 
workmen of over $70,000,000.00 ! 

1$ During this same period, workmen se- 
cured advances of $72,947,000.00 in wages 
through arbitration and conciliation. 

That is, when strikes were carried on, 
workers sustained a net loss of over $70 - 
000,000.00. 

On the other hand, when other disputes 
were left to arbitration, a gain of nearly 
$73,000,000.00 resulted to the workers. 
Arbitration proved its superiority over the 
strike method. 

*]J In the United States, during the past 
six years, more than 15,000 strikes have been 
in force resulting in loss of millions of dol- 
lars, not to say anything of the terrible 
bloodshed and loss of life. 

€J Shall we follow the Conciliation plan or 
will we continue to sacrifice our property 
and our lives on the field of war? 

That is the greatest industrial problem in 
America, today. 



<} An ounce of prevention is worth a pound 
of cure. Why not prevent strikes when 
strikes are so costly and so unnecessary? 
It can be done? 

^ Remember — 

<fl An ounce of prevention is worth a pound 
of cure. 

^ Family is the unit of society on which is 
based the state; destroy the family life 
(divorce) and the state falls. 



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Old Captain of Industry. 



mm 



|HE great centra! fact in all the 
seething sea of new ideas is, after 
all, very old and very simple. The 
better human understanding has 
been glimpsed in every age in which noble 
men dreamed of a more perfect social con- 
dition. It is as old as the dust underneath 
your feet. It is as old as Cain and Abel. 
Cain, when asked what had become of his 
brother, replied in words that have forever 
been ringing down the halls of time: 
"Am I my brother's keeper?" 
€fl It is the greatest question" and greatest 
answer ever made in all the annals of re- 
corded history, sacred or profane. 

* * * 

€J And for thousands of years in each new 
generation poets, philosophers and other 
noble minds have again and again returned 
to the same question. 

Today, the 'weathercock is turning strong, 
in the wind, toward the better human un- 
derstanding. Human nature is the same 
but the tendency is at least toward the ob- 
literation of the old scoundrel known as the 
Buccaneering Captain of Industry. This 

man at heart, was a crooked devil. 

# # * 

€[ Now after all is said, man is not like the 
sleeping dog in the sun. Man does progress 
in his plans, and there are even poets, 
priests and philosophers who think they 
behold now and then some slight evidences 
of a change of heart toward one's feilowman. 

€| My Country 'Tis of Thee has given way 
to the Tango. 



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The air is full of the words of good will, 
but these remain so much empty sound un- 
less you can be made to see your plain 

duty. 

* * * 

€f This is where the old-time Captain of In- 
dustry made his terrible mistake — just as 
you are making yours. He thought that the 
basis of loyalty between capital and labor 
is wages. He was wrong. 
Loyalty implies love, but there can be no 
loyalty when terms of employment are 
based on wages governed by the laws of 
supply and demand, only. He was a fool 
even to believe that murderers can prosper. 
That's the principle the old-time Captain of 
Industry set up, and in its defense he lost 
his immortal soul and his family went to 
hell. 

Cfl The Old-time Captain of Industry had 
only one idea — the absolute, ruthless de- 
struction of his own species, by murder. 
If you earn a dollar for bread and the old- 
time Captain of Industry cheats you out of 
that dollar, is he not committing murder? 
Is not a man a murderer who deprives you 
of the right to live, after you have earned 
that right by honest labor? Is he not a 
murderer who makes drunkards, prostitutes, 
outlaws and who commits crimes against 
little children? 



€J What awful things the old-time Captain 
of Industry did in order to pile up his mil- 
lions. His textile workers lived in squalor; 
the shacks were falling down; the roofs were 
leaky, bathrooms a dream, air foul with 
odors, yards and corners filled with garbage, 
ashes and manure. 

q Athens, repudiating the Eugenist theo- 
ries, left us a great heritage in art, litera- 
ture and architecture. 



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Wives and mothers half starved, laborers, 
herded like swine in cattle cars, had to eat, 
sleep and — almost before each other's faces! 
— go through the private conventions of the 
body. 

* * * 

tfl The methods of the old-time Captain of 
Industry are now classed with those of 
Geronimo, the most blood-thirsty Indian in 
all history, or with scoundrels like Captain 
Kydd, whose sole aim was loot and murder, 
revealed in many hideous shapes. 

* * * 

tfl The old-time Captain of Industry is the 
man we wish to bury, bury so deep that not 
even the stink of his carcass will contami- 
nate the green turf above his miserable 

dust. 

* * * 

tfl When the books are opened on the last 
day, will those human wolves dare to face 
the great white light, thrown without fear 
or favor, on the naked reality of private 
history? And where will you stand, your- 
self, reader? Are you making Cain's answer, 

too? 

* * * 

tfl There is such a thing as private right. 
Labor has its right, capital has its rights, 
but private rights cease when they become 
public wrongs. 

Surely in organized society the Government 
representing the people, whether it be of 
the state or of the country as a whole, 
ought to step in and take hold of a situa- 
tion where parties to a dispute are unable 
to settle their differences, and the life and 
happiness of in dividuals are threatened 
thereby. 



tfl The first duty of a public service utility 
corporation is good service to the public. 



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The New Captain of 
Industry. 



3VE in its broad and highest sense 

has always been, and will continue 

to be, civilization's greatest force. 



^ We are not talking poetry. Love means 
loyalty in its practical application to busi- 
ness and this is a business article. Already 
the solution is emblazoned by the new com- 
mercial leaders so that all may read — and 
reading, understand. 

Love is the connecting link between capital 
and labor; it is the bond that welds the one 
to the other, holds them together. 



<$ The Love you and I bear to our fellow- 
man, our brother, has made possible the 
great Society of which you and I are mem- 
bers today. Without Love, men cannot en- 
dure to be together. Just so soon as Hate 
enters, war begins, and Society is disrupted. 
<| The old buccaneering Captain of Indus- 
try ignored the fundamental basis which 
keeps Society harmonious and intact. 
Thank God, his time is over. 
In his place, stands a man who recognizes 
the all-controlling influence of Love in the 
perpetuation of Society. 

And the new Captain of Industry first and 
foremost is a builder and constructor, who 
believes that business is not war, that it is, 
instead, harmony and progress. 



q Publicity is a two-edged sword — it cuts 
both ways. 



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He believes in the basic principle of 
Brotherhood founded on Love. 
He has taken the principle of Love out of the 
skies, has' made it practical in its applica- 
tion to business. The new Captain of In- 
dustry believes that loyalty flowing from 
Love, between master and man, is necessary 
to secure Industrial Freedom. He knows 
well that greater returns are produced from 
contented loyal employes than from discon- 
tented workmen. 

He knows, that to win contests his fighting 
force must be organized, thoroughly equip- 
ped, ably officered, and above all must be 
loyal to their leader. 

€J The New Captain of Industry has made 
Washington and his soldiers the practical 
guide. 



€J The new Captain of Industry recognizes 
and accepts as true the unity of Society; 
that rich and poor, buyer and seller, em- 
ployer and employe, master and man, have 
interests so closely interwoven that what- 
ever affects one, necessarily affects all 
members. Discord in this harmonious unity, 
he concludes, results in chaos, disintegra- 
tion, war, isolation and final extermination. 
If Love is the compelling motive for men 
to live together; for without Love — with 
hate in one's heart — men cannot build a na- 
tion. 

This great, central illuminating fact is the 
basis on which the modern Captain of Chiv- 
alry conducts his business. 

1$ Men work for money. The new Captain 

q The Yellow Press, The Political Dema- 
gogue, The Labor Agitator, The Bucaneering 
Captain of Industry — Parasites. 

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of Industry gives him a just proportion of 
his profits. 

Men work also for promotion. The new 
Captain of Industry opens up many avenues 
of advancement. 

Men want to labor under healthful condi- 
tions. The new Captain of Industry builds 
factories affording plenty of light, heat and 
air, as well as sanitary, educational and 
social comforts. 

Did the employe have an accident? He is 
taken to the new hospital of the Solvay 
Company. 

Is he sick with Tuberculosis? The new con- 
sumptive hospital built by the Sante Fe rail- 
road at Albuquerque, N. M., is at his dis- 
posal, where he is cared for without cost. 
Do slack times threaten lack of employ- 
ment? Mr. E. H. Gary of the U. S. Steel 
Corporation kept the great mills going night 
and day, during dull months being forced 
to find a foreign market for his products. 



^ But why continue? The new Captain of 
Industry upset old traditions. His workers 
are not slaves. 

They are human beings, like himself, and 
are treated as such. The new Captain of 
Industry solved the great Industrial prob- 
lem in a very simple way. 
He acknowledged every man his equal — 
and in return his employes gave him loyalty. 
1§ His Humanitarian work realizes the 
larger hope for our Country. His belief in 
equality and brotherhood of man, applied 
in his business, is one of the strongest argu- 
ments against Socialism and unrest in the 
Industrial world. 



*J The I. W. W. is the workingman's plague. 



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ESTIMONIALS 



ROM A GOVERNOR OF OHIO AND ONE TIME CANDIDATE FOR 
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. 

Columbus. Ohio, Dec. 11, 1914. 
My Dear Mr. Hogan: — I am in receipt of a copy of your pamphlet entitled 
"Hot Shots." It is very unique and interesting, and gotten up in capital 
shape. 

I am especially impressed with two planks in your platform; (a) To combat 
alism and (b) To advocate Individual Initiative as the basis for all So- 
cial, Industrial and Political Progress." 

To my notion the danger that besets our people arises from the tendency to 
communism and away from individualism. You cannot too strongly combat 
the Socialistic tendencies of the growing number of our citizens who are 
lured by the seductive theory that the government ought to do everything for 
everybody. In this fight I wish you the greatest success. 

(Signed) JAMES E. CAMPBELL, 

Former Governor of Ohio. 

FROM A NOTED EDUCATOR. 

Detroit, Mich.. Dec. 14. 1914. 
My Dear Mr. Hogan: — I am in receipt of the booklet "Hot Shots" and also 
leaflets on certain phases of our Social and Economic evils. 
I haven't yet had the pleasant opportunity of perusing the booklet and leaflets, 
but I am sure from my knowledge of The Gateway that they contain much 
practical wisdom. 

I wish you great success in your effort to create a just and more amicable 
relation between Labor and Capital. This question is rife with problems, 
and it requires an unflagging courage to assert in season and out of season 
the basic principles through whose medium even a partial solution may be 
reached. 

(Signed) REV. WM. F. DOOLEY. 

President, University of Detroit. 

FROM A NATIONAL PUBLIC UTILITY OFFICIAL WHO PREACHES 
AND PRACTICES A FAIR DEAL 

Detroit, Mich., Dec. 15, 1914. 
Dear Mr. Hogan: — I heartily endorse Hot Shots and consider it the best 
little booklet of the year. Your campaign against Socialism and for a better 
understanding between men, has my hearty support. My Platform should 
have a million subscribers. 

(Signed) J. T. LYNN,. 

FROM A FAMOUS NEWSPAPER WRITER. 

Hollywood, Calif.,Dcc. 18, 1914 
"Hot Shots" is the most pointed and original booklet of the year. If Presi- 
dent Wilson were the publisher Hot Shots would be translated into every 
tongue. 

(Signed) JOHN H. GREUSEL, 

Famous Newspaper Interviewer. 

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